28.Feb.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to Aminet until February 27th, 2016:
fping.lha comm/tcp 91K 68k Show which network hosts are ...
netsurf.lha comm/www 6.2M OS4 Fast CSS capable web browser
netsurf_os3.lha comm/www 3.0M 68k Fast CSS capable web browser
Addicts-Kifftro.adf demo/intro 880K 68k Demo
gui4cli-update.lha dev/gui 100K 68k Easy, event driven GUI langua...
Xix.lha game/wb 33K 68k Rotate shapes so they connect...
WebPButton_0.5.lha gfx/show 543K MOS A animated Button
sidid.lha mus/misc 43K MOS HVSC playroutine identity sca...
CTLG2CT.lha util/conv 19K OS4 Decompiles catalogs back into...
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28.Feb.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 27.02.2016
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until February 27th, 2016:
universe-thetrip.lha dem/sce 9Mb 4.1 Alchimie 2013 winner demo.
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 5Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
gorky17.lha gam/str 177Mb 4.0 Demo version of the 3D strategy RPG
netsurf.lha net/bro 6Mb 4.0 Fast CSS capable browser
extraversion.lha uti/she 7kb 4.0 Finds the extra version number (...
rhash_cmd.lha uti/she 16kb 4.1 rHash preforms hashing of files
rrandom.lha uti/she 2kb 4.1 31bit Random Generator
evenmore.lha uti/tex 420kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
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28.Feb.2016
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WHDLoad: New packages until 27.02.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installer has been added until February 27th, 2016:
- 2016-02-25 improved: Final Fight (Capcom) now works on 68000, files can be crunched (Info)
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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Games-Coffer: Six applications addedd
Six applications have been added to the software collection Games-Coffer: BBase II, Deskbench 1.3, Direct Action, Future Composer, Giant Utilities 3, Giant Utilities 4, Noisetracker 2.0 and Text Plus V3/X-Spell.
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28.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: AmiCast 10 interviewed Gunnar von Boehn (Apollo-Core)
In its tenth issue, the English-language podcast AmiCast has interviewed the developer Gunnar von Boehn who is working on the Apollo-Core as well as on the accelerator board Vampire II.
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27.Feb.2016
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File manager: Tasko (update)
"Tasko" written by Andreas G. Szabo offers any number of directory windows you like. Between them, you can copy files with drag&drop - for each new directory window, just start Tasko once again. The current release is called a "release candidate", which probably includes bugs. So far you cannot delete empty directories.
Tasko requires AmigaOS 3.0 or higher. The author recommends at least AmigaOS 3.5. The screennotify.library is supported, that means if the Workbench is supposed to be closed or opened, Tasko immediately responds.
Download: Tasko_v1.0rc6.zip (176 KB)
Update: (03.03.2016, 06:00, cg)
Meanwhile the sixth "release candidate" is available. According to Andreas G. Szabo "now the files list is only refreshed when the dir reading is ready. However you can turn back on the live-refresh in the menu settings. I also changed the live-refresh method and it perhaps now performs better." Additional changes:
- Only one lister is read/refreshed at a time.
- Initial bookmarks feature added, drag dirs or volumes into the bookmarks list (turn it on in the settings menu).
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26.Feb.2016
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Review: Netsurf under AmigaOS 3 (Update)
If nowadays users of classic Amiga hardware are going to surf the Internet, until recently they could only choose between iBrowse and A-Web. But both web browsers have not been updated since 2006 and 2011, respectively. As long as you are only intending to browse websites like amiga-news.de or the Aminet, then these two are sufficient - but it is quite impossible to access more complex websites like yahoo.de. Our editor Daniel Reimann has examined the new alternative called Netsurf:
In recent times, almost unnoticed a third option for surfing the Internet has been added: Netsurf. More precisely you would have to say a third and a fourth option, because there are two different versions of this browser that was originally ported to AmigaOS 4. Almost unnoticed, because these ports were only early alpha versions. Now both ports have been released in version 3.4.
Netsurf is a free, open source web browser, which is available for different platforms. The project was established in 2002, the first public version 1.0 of Netsurf was released in 2007. Already in August 2008 a port for the operating system AmigaOS 4 was added. Since that time, the browser has been uninterruptedly developed and now is available in version 3.4.
Since about a year, Chris Young is also working on a ReAction-based port for AmigaOS 3. According to Chris, Artur Jarosik has been developing a version for OS3 for a longer time, but which so far required the ixemul-environment. Today we are going to have a closer look at the port of Chris Young and find out if this version can be launched, is working or even is suitable for daily use. Test system was an Amiga 1200, extended with a Blizzard 1230/50 and 32 MB RAM, which is connected to the scart port of a TV set.
The readme states explicitly that AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9 with 32 MB RAM are required. Besides it is pointed out that "this is early beta quality software for testing only". Chris also wrote, that "it *will* crash!". Well, this I can already tell you: Netsurf did not crash a single time - this is quite an unusual quality concerning Amiga software: Hats off! The archive also contains a detailed tutorial in AmigaGuide format.
While earlier versions of Netsurf could not be unpacked under OS3, this is no longer a problem with the latest Lha archive. It contains an installer, which simply copies Netsurf to the desired destination and finally runs FixFonts. Afterwards you can launch Netsurf without installing any other additional Software.
After a few seconds, a first welcome screen is opened which tells you that Netsurf is "The Open Source Web Browser for AmigaOS 4". After that, the browser window is opened. The first time you start the program, a locally saved home page is loaded:
Of course this default home page can be changed.
Chris Young has uninterruptedly developed his port of Netsurf. While in earlier versions the preferences window did not work, the latest version even has added Tabs - which so far cannot be closed, though.
As you can see looking at the screenshot, the buttons for "forward", "backward" und "reload" currently do not work. According to Chris, this bug crept into the latest release while implementing the tabs.
Before we are going to load some more complex websites using Netsurf, two facts: Javascript is still disabled. And which perhaps is some more disappointing and because this considerably limits Netsurf: HTTPS connections do not work using this version of the browser. According to Chris Young it should work, but when accessing howsmyssl.com, after a few seconds a message pops up: "Timeout was reached" - therefore at the moment you cannot access websites like yahoo.com which use HTTPS.
But what Netsurf can load: www.tagesschau.de
As you can see (by the way, in the background the Workbench works using 256 colours) sometimes there are some graphic bugs if you use the "normal" presentation. The horizontal scroll bar also is missing. But the browser has a real nice and handy feature: It can scale.
According to Chris Young, this function still does not work as it should, because the website should not be cut off at the side, but either there should be the horizontal scroll bar or the whole website should be seen. For me, this feature was very helpful, because often the fonts are displayed much better when the website is scaled.
I want to mention two issues: Speed and memory consumption. As you can see on the lower left corner of the last screenshot, Netsurf always informs you about the time it takes for loading a website. In this case it took Netsurf 266 seconds to load tagesschau.de, while amiga-news.de is loaded in about 42 seconds. This is a lot of time but compared with its previous version, which makes me watching the monitore for about 70 seconds, it loads it much faster.
According to the author, all preferences are set by default to values which speed up the browser as much as possible. Only in respect to the memory he recommends to try out to set the value of the disc cache to 0. In my case, this had not any influence to the speed of Netsurf. However I did increase and decrease the value for the memory cache: For my computer, the value of 20 MB was found to be best. Higher values did slow down my system again.
As usual for Amiga browsers you can disable loading pictures, which saves a lot of loading time. Everyone has to decide for himself if and when pictures should be loaded ot not. For example loading the website www.spiegel.de took Netsurf 874 seconds to load with pictures and only 292 seconds without loading of pictures.
The number of colours set for the Workbench screen did not have an explicit influence to the loading time of the browser.
By the way, I did not have any issues with missing free memory at any point. The lowest available free memory which I had was about 11 MB. On average I had 19 MB of free RAM.
What conclusions can we draw from our tests? Actually I can recommend to give this early version of Chris' Netsurf a try! Of course the missing features like disabled Javascript or still not working HTTPS support are limiting the potential of the browser - and compared with iBrowse and AWeb, loading times sometimes are extremely high. But already at this early stage, Netsurf reliably works and gives you the option to access websites, which until now were not available to the classic Amiga user. Chris Young asks to report bugs to chris@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk. You can have a very nice and personal contact to him and he actually does answer to your questions and problems. So it depends on all of us, the users of OS3, to provide feedback to him and demonstrate our interest so he keeps looking forward to develop Netsurf with energy and enthusiasm.
Update: (04.03.2016, 00:30, cg)
In the meantime, we figured out how the SSL problem can be solved: The configuration file Netsurf/users/default/choices contains a "curl_fetch_timeout" that determines how many seconds Netsurf will wait until it displays the timeout error message. Increasing that value to 60 we managed to loadebay's classifieds (just to hit the next stumbling block, due to the lack of Javascript):
Loading howmyssl.com worked fine aswell now. Why it describes our SSL client as "bad" instead of "imrovable" - Chris Young tells us it should be the latter - is currently being investigated.
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25.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 49 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Download sites:
Italian
English
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25.Feb.2016
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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USB-Adapter: Firmware update for Ryś MKII and Ryś USB
The Ryś MKII adapter can be used together with USB HID devices like mouses, joysticks and pads to connect them as input devices for Amiga computers. The latest firmware update for this adapter as well for its previous variant Ryś USB adds the following devices:
- iBuffalo Classic USB Gamepad
- SNES pad with USB adapter
- elektronic switcher 2in1 DB9 (mouse/joystick)
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24.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Interview: Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin (Real AmiKit)
The blog of the English-language podcast Amicast has published an interview with Fernando 'Retrofan' Martin, who is the author of Real AmiKit, which is an adaption of the Workbench distribution AmiKit for real Amigas.
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24.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 15.02.2016)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of February 15th:
- A crash in TLSF memory manager has been fixed (mschulz)
- Amiga.lib no longer depends on C library (neil)
- AvailFonts function of diskfont.library now supports NULL parameter (mazze)
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24.Feb.2016
Kris (ANF)
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MiST: FPGA-AGA-Core 1.2
For the Atari/Amiga clone MiST (amiga-news.de reported) an update of the emulated Amiga with AGA-support has been released which further increases the compatibility.
Changes in version 1.2:
- Initial implementation of programmable display modes
- OSD HRTmon enable/disable switch is working (ON – F11 acts as NMI and enters HRTmon; OFF – F11 is HELP key)
- Proper handling of CPU access to Chip-RAM & custom regs – CPU waits for free slot when turbo option is disabled
- Fixed playfield 2 color LUT offset when playfield 2 has priority for OCS/ECS modes
- Some IRQ changes
- Added support for undocumented Agnus/Denise behaviour when BPL=7 in ECS/OCS mode (fixes demos like SushiBoyz by Ghostown, Sliced&Diced by Dekadence etc.)
- Blitter line mode fixed (fixes demos like SushiBoyz & Sunglasses by Ghostown, Vectorize by RSi etc.)
- Bitfield instructions fixed, barrel shifter implemented by Till Harbaum
- Fixed colortable for sprites (bplxor) – fixes Alien Breed 3D (and probably many others)
- Fixed keyboard rate
- Kickstart-ROM is also uploaded to mirror position (E0)
- Fixed reset problems & Fast-RAM disappearing
- Added CPU CACR cache control, fixed reading CACR reg
- Added scanlines for non-doublescan config
- Fixed video dithering – both spatial & random dithering weren’t working properly
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23.Feb.2016
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Kickstart switcher: A500Flash
A500Flash is a Kickstart switcher allowing Flash-memory reprogramming. The device should be installed inside the Amiga A500/A500+/A2000.
The design of the Flash memory enables loading another Kickstart image by running additional software on the same Amiga computer and subsequent switching between available ROM images by holding down CTRL+Amiga+Amiga keys.
The A500Flash is available in two versions, either for 512 KB or 1 MB ROMs:
A500Flash 5k
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 512kB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 512kB ROM images – only the primary ones
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
A500Flash 1M
- Designed for Amiga A500/A500+/A2000 models
- Comes with 1MB of built-in Flash memory
- Support for 1MB ROM images - standard and extended ROM images
- Switching between available Kickstart images by holding down CTRL+A+A keys for about 3 seconds
- Original ROM chip required
- PCB boards installation in place of original ROM and Gary chip
- Flash chips programming using native Amiga OS software
- Included software requires Amiga OS 1.3+
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23.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Web-Browser: NetSurf 3.4
Chris Young has updates his AmigaOS-4-port of the web browser NetSurf. Additional to improvements (websites now are better displayed) and bug fixes, now the Duktape Javascript engine is included. It is disabled by default because the support of Javascript still is incomplete.
For users of AmigaOS 3.5 or higher, there is also a new beta version. The author asks for feedback to improve this version.
Download:
netsurf.lha (6 MB)
netsurf_os3.lha (3 MB)
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23.Feb.2016
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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Event: 3D videos and pictures of 30th Amiga anniversary party in Mountain View
During the 30th anniversary party in Mountain View, Alex Carmona took stereoscopic pictures and now has published them under the title link.
The photographs are available in Multi Picture Object format, while the AVI-videos have two channels (A/B) and use the MJPG-codec.
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23.Feb.2016
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Printed magazine: Amiga Future 119 - preview and extracts
Today some coloured extracts and previews have been published of issue 119 (March/April 2016) of the Amiga Future. Highlights of the issue are previews of Spielwiese, Spice Obsession Mod for Dune 2 and Amiga Racer as well as an interview with Pascal Papara. The cover CD contains PD-software as well as some full versions.
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22.Feb.2016
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS-Distribution: AEROS for Pi updated
Pascal Papara's Linux-hosted AROS-distribution AEROS is available for registered users as updated version for the ARM-based computer Raspberry Pi (video).
AmiCloud, AmigaRacer, MilkyTracker, fixed lokales, audio driver for AROS, VisualBoyAdvance and FCEUX are included.
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22.Feb.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4 / MorphOS: Ask Me Up XXL 2.4.4
Jérôme 'Glames' Senay's Ask Me Up is a puzzle game for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Android, Linux and Windows) in which you have to correctly answer questions on common knowledge, each with four possible answers. In the L and XL edition there is also a two-player mode. A demo version with 80 questions is available for free.
In version 2.4.4 some questions as well as the English and Greek translations have been reworked and the German, Portuguese and Swedish translations habe been completed.
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